- Hero Travel tour,, My idea was to create tours to places I wanted to go. Then I would go along on the tour and write about the people taking the tours with me. With their own pictures and stories about them I was going to create a
personalized book for each of them to buy. Now this isn't as far out as it might seem. If you will, just for a moment imagine yourself a writer with the power, knowledge and insight of Dick Francis writing stories about the winning rider in the fifth race. Hoofs are pounding, clumps of mud slashes at your face but you see the opening ahead and lean forward, whispering
(through the reins) that THIS is the time to move. Ah yes -- the winner of that fifth race will love the story more than s/he would a
generic racing painting and would pay dearly for it.
- Take real estate that I bought for next to nothing
and sell it with vividly descriptive videos enhanced with your words of praise and explanation was my second idea. This is the one I started to work on and I did right handsomely with it. When I got married my wife took one look at my numbers and joined the crowd. She did even better than I did.
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Build an Internet Impire. This is the third project I chose and the one I've stuck with. Using my writing skills and discerning mind I was able to help others in numerous ways. Here's a Shortcut for You:
The New Age Work at Home Plan will show you how to create Internet-Based Financial Independence
 in 10 Simple Steps. Set your internet business on the road to financial independence. This high dollar course is yours for free
IF you find the
GOLDEN KEY on that page. So, find the
Golden Key, and click on it to get this whole, entire course for free.
- Screen printing. You don't need your own equipment. Your job is to come up with the ideas and the market. For instance, I planned to do courthouse pictures with the name under them and the date, then sell these to stores on the freeway. It turns out that little curios are just as
easy to produce and the profits are larger.
- Make envelopes that are special for each area... Arkansas envelopes, Lonoke envelopes, etc. Also, witty sayings envelopes. One I made up this morning said:
This warm, personal letter has been cleverly disguised as a bill.
- Word processing, typesetting. It is incredible to me that there are still people and businesses that need this service, but there are.
- Writing Assistance... "With your help Tonto, I can get my story told in a way that is powerful, ringing with truth and energy." How do you find customers? If people even suspect you can help them they will dig you out of the woodwork. My first problem was actually charging people for doing this. Then my second problem was finding the courage to say NO
when their numbers became overwhelming.
- Cookie celebrations. Instead of flowers send bouquets of cookies that make the heart smile and mouth water. Special cards that you write will be included.
- Pick up and delivery service, laundry, shoes, whatever customer wants picked up and delivered somewhere. Use written cards to prosper. Incredibly enough I happened to meet a man that took this idea and ran with it. One year after he started he was earning $15,000.00 per week and running himself ragged because, like me, he found it so hard to say NO.
- printing broker, printers earn up to $40,000 a year, brokers earn up to $150,000 My USP is: With my writing abilities, I can help buyers to improve their works. This was another idea I personally tried out and it quickly outgrew me. When I finally quit I had people driving forty and sixty miles to get me to do something for them.
- Graphic Design -- Mobile billboards. Find a sponsor, put a bill board on back of a truck and haul it through traffic during rush hour. It isn't that imaginative, and it doesn't pay much, but it does get attention.
- Photo inventory, VHS inventory. I know people who do this and they make a good living at it.
- Event Planning How strange. There are actually people (with money) who can't plan an event.
- videotaping service
- photography. Almost anything you write can be enhanced in someway by photography skills.
- cell phone Vacation Guide. If you know your Region well enough to guide people to its best attractions by cell phone you're in. People are doing this by iPods now, but back in 1997 it was a strange idea.
- Do INTERNET newsletter publishing, do one for restaurants, one for taxis, etc. Change the name across to promote the innocent.
- Promote a business, everywhere, ask for a share of the profits.
- Custom Photo birth, wedding announcement cards
- Public Relations Agency, requires special talents already mine.
- Resume counseling. I can do the work, but selling the service was beyond me. What I needed was a partner with sales ability.
- Sign making service; boy do business people ever need help with getting just a few words right!
- Writing articles for local businesses that will get them FREE exposure.
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You can be a Disability Specialist
, and use your writing skills to get applicants enrolled on disability. Surprisingly enough, the hardest part of this work is keeping the applicant from fainting by the wayside. Some of the people I met were such hopeless hannahs that they needed to be on disability just for psychiatric reasons.
- Start Your Own Information Web hub. If you can come up with a new idea or slant you could be in for a moneymaking ride.
- Seminar promoting.. do this for businesses -- in house.. bring the experts to them that they need. My idea was to call businesses and find out what they needed, then find the experts that could perform the deed for less than I had contracted for. Since I have a natural knack for getting in to see the decision makers I would probably have done quite well with this one too.
One company I'm working with now pays me $4,000.00 per sign up.
Isn't that wonderful?
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